Taoiseach Enda Kenny is the focus of mounting anger in the 26 Counties
after criticising the Irish people for their “greed” and “mad” borrowing-- just days after he paid one and a quarter billion euros of public
funds to international bond speculators.

Researchers employed by Boston College to conduct interviews with
former IRA members -- the subject of a British government subpoena --
have said they are not surprised at the latest court ruling against
their efforts to prevent the interview transcripts falling into the
hands of the PSNI.

The ‘Hooded Men’ were a group of internees who were systematically
tortured by the British military in 1971. We carry a statement
from several of the surviving ‘Hooded Men’ on the subject of the 40th
anniversary Bloody Sunday march, to take place in Derry on Sunday 29th
January, as well as a program of events for the weekend.

Prominent republican Colin Duffy has today been found not guilty of the
Real IRA attack on Massereene British Army base in 2009, although there
was disbelief at the court when his co-accused, Brian Shivers from
Magherafelt, was found guilty.

British prime minister David Cameron has dramatically attempted to
hijack moves towards a referendum on Scottish independence. The move has
accelerated a British constitutional crisis which could have profound
implications for London’s rule in the north of Ireland.

Participants in Boston College’s ‘Troubles Archive’ project have
demanded the return or destruction of all of its taped interviews after
parts of the archive were delivered to the British Crown forces.